Lookit what I've been working on! It's a 9-pager short story in comic form, that I wrote by my
onesome this time - with help from a local historian. It's the true
story of a local "colourful figure" from here in Lyon, a 19th century
open-air café owner who had a Thing for the former royal family and
basically went around the main city square cosplaying Marie-Antoinette,
"Queen of the Linden Trees", much to the locals' enjoyment, but at a
time when that was not politically an incredibly savvy move...

This
is my contribution to a hippy-dippy - yet extremely professional -
co-op type publishing venture a coupla dozen Lyon BD artists are pulling
together; everyone is putting in some volunteer spare time on the
formatting and printing and distribution work, and the better part of
that 3€ selling price is for the (thus far unpaid) artists of each
respective issue of the magazine. Which is a bit of an Important Issue,
because there's been a general trend in the French BD/comics scene for
the big-name publishers towards lower page rates, increasingly distant
royalties-starting points, and flooding of the market with so many new
publications it's hard to get noticed by overwhelmed readers. So, this
is one form of grass-roots-ish alternate solutioneering. It's going to
be a monthly publication à la old-fashioned magazines, 12 pages incl.
covers, with a complete story in comics form, some extra material
sometimes; mainly historical trufacts to start with but branching out
into other non-fiction topics with a local slant.
I'm in issue #2,
part of the first batch of six magazines we plan to publish all in one
go at the main Lyon book fair/comic con event in June, before the
monthly publication system starts up.

and we have a Kickstarter
Ulule campaign up and running to help us get started! (Ulule is a
little more franco-friendly, same principle however). If that feels like
something you wanna help out with, I'd be very grateful! Donor goodies
include a yearly subscription in physical and digital format... anyone
wanting to pratice their French on some fun stories, obscure historical
anecdata and other city tales...

About Me

Hello and bienvenue!

Welcome to my online portfolio and sketch-dumping-place. Please check out my website (work in progress!) for more stuff... and you can find also a lot of fantasy and fanartish works on my DeviantArt account here.